Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed slab
Sevenchurches Or Camaderry, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sevenchurches Or Camaderry
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WI023-008056-
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated inscribed slab at Glendalough recorded by Petrie in 1878 (Petrie 1878, 60). According to Macalister (1949, 82-3) 'the drawing is inadequate and it is impossible to form any opinion or value as to the decipherment of the first two lines. The third is clearly ANIMABUS OMNIUM FIDELIUM in an abbreviated form' . Macalister bases his reading upon the illustration in Petrie/1878, Pl. XXXIII, fig. 70. This, as Petrie/1878, 60, makes clear, `is taken from a sketch in the collection of drawings made by Colonel Burton Conyngham's artists, but nothing is known of the monument now, and it is impossible to decipher the inscription as it stands'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 December 2012
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Petrie, G. 1878 Christian inscriptions in the Irish language. Chiefly collected and drawn by George Petrie, LL. D.; and edited by Margaret Stokes, 2 vols. Dublin.